2024-11-26
8 分钟Ben Affleck's take on AI replacing actors, Stanford researcher (Yegor Denisov-Blanch) busts the ghost engineers, Electrobun takes a crack at Electron apps, April King opens up a cookies can of worms, John Arundel thinks many of us are making a career ending mistake & Typogram's CodingFont.com is like Zoolander's Walk Off but for coding fonts.
What up nerds?
It's your boy.
I'm Jared and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, November 25, 2024.
Who would have thought that Ben Affleck's take on AI replacing Hollywood actors would so well represent my take on AI replacing software engineers?
AI can write you excellent imitative verse that sounds Elizabethan.
It cannot write you Shakespear function of having two actors or three or four actors in a room and the taste to discern and construct that is something that currently entirely eludes AI's capability and I think will for a meaningful period of time.
What AI is going to do is going to disintermediate the more liberal well said, Ben.
Okay, let's get into the news.
Busting the Ghost Engineers From Ghost Jobs to Ghost Engineers Is our industry haunted?
Here's Stanford researcher Yegor Denisov Blanch.
I'm at Stanford and I research software engineering productivity.
We have data on the performance of greater than 50,000 engineers from hundreds of companies.
About 9.5% of software engineers do virtually nothing.
How do we know 9.5% of software engineers are ghosts?
Our model quantifies productivity by analyzing source code from private git repos, simulating a panel of 10 experts evaluating each commit across multiple dimensions.
We published a paper on this and I have more on the way.
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Turns out this news gets worse the further away from the office you get remote workers 14% ghosts, hybrid work 9% ghosts in office work 6% ghosts.
Maybe studies like this one are helping inform many organizations return to office policies.
I don't know.